Joe, Welcome Aboard!

My son is an ABE aboard the USS Ronald Reagan in San Diego, Ca. and my family and I couldn't be prouder of him. When he first enlisted I found NavyForMoms in searching for answers to my son's future. I just knew their had to be a site for dads like n4m's but I was wrong. So I started this site so us dads would also have a place to call home. I'm new at this and I hope this site will benefit fathers that come behind us. So jump right in share concerns, join groups, share info, and show off your Sailor. I'm so glad to find out their are so many proud Navy Dads just like myself. I hope this site benefits you and your family throughout your daughters journey in the Navy. Thank Maria for her service for me and thanks again for joining us.

Sincerely, EG

Thanks! I guess I do have a question. My daughter is 25 years old and has trained with a personal trainer who was ex-military for about 14 months prior to Sunday's indoc. However, shortly into her training regimen began, she injured her knee. After about 3 months, she finally went to see an orthopedic surgeon, who did an MRI, and said that there was no permanent damage but it was badly bruised. So, she had to spend about 6 to 7 months resting her knee and then doing rehab therapy. She was not allowed to even run on treadmills, so her trainer focused on building up her upper body strength.

Well, her knee now is in great shape and she can do 45 good, military pushups under 2 minutes and 60+ curls (something like situps but a bit different) under 2 minutes, and when she did the 1 1/2 mile PT run she finished one minute under the cut off time for ladies ( 13:54 sec). But she's not really in the type of running shape that I imagine she really should be. I'm just curious how much they run them on a daily basis - 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles? I think this is the one area that I worry about the most. Does anyone have any feel on how much they focus on running during these rigorous workouts?

Also, this is a general question to anyone - I'm not sure if I'm only responding to you EG but I'd like feedback from any of the Navy Dads too, so if I'm posting this incorrectly, could you make it available for others to see too? thanks!

Joe,

Not to sure of how much running is involved, I'll ask my son and will get back with you on that. I do know they do a lot of marching on a daily basis and do the timed run three times during boot to pass. The timed run is indoors. My son always played sports in school but went to Great Lakes out of shape and had no problem with the physical stuff. He actually loved boot camp. The best way to bring this question to every one's attention is to go on the main page and where the discussions are click start a discussion " right above where the photos are ". Give it a title and copy and paste your question in the discussion. This way it will be at the top of the discussions. Let me know if you have any problems with this. Also, I wish Maria the best of luck, she'll do just fine.